Mithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.
A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, according to an international team of researchers who say its narrative scene also makes it the world’s oldest known evidence of storytelling in art.
As water flows across the walls of caves, it deposits a layer of a mineral called calcite. The layers of calcite not only protect the paintings but can also be used to determine their age. But the layers are usually uneven, often resembling popcorn, Joannes-Boyau said, making it difficult to use previous dating techniques that involve extracting a sample and averaging the age of all layers. “You get bumps.
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